Quarré-les-Tombes (French pronunciation: [kaʁe le tɔ̃b]) is a commune in the Yonne department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in north-central France.

It is located on a granite hilltop of 450 meters altitude, which exposes the village to the northern winds and cold temperatures The commune is located at a crossroads of these routes: The commune has 37 hamlets.

The current name of town comes from the large number of empty stone coffins ("tombes") in the graveyard surrounding the church.

Quarré, formerly Careacum, belonged to Corbon, Lord of Corbigny, who bequeathed it to his son in 706 at the Abbey of Flavigny.

In the eleventh century, the village was owned by the Sires de Chastellux, Counts of Quarré.